ground up—Design the management landscape" and Goss' seminars on turf grasses and turf nutrition were pre-sented to packed auditoriums of over 110 grounds managers.

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Dr. Roy Goss, Washington State University, conducted at seminar on new turfgrasses and their characteristics at the PGMS conference in Portland, OR.

ence. Some of the attendees told WTT that they were dismayed at the lack of problems that the Pacific Northwest seemed to be encountering. Next year's conference and trade show will be held in San Diego, CA, November 14-18. A record turnout is expected.

New York conference draws 700 to Albany Despite competition from hunting sea-son, the PLCAA Show, and last minute problems with the conference hotel, the New York State Turfgrass Associa-tion Conference and Trade Show at-tracted nearly 700 turf managers to Albany's modern Empire State Plaza.

Educational sessions were divided into lawn care, golf, and athletic field management. General sessions cov-ered turf and landscape topics and featured regional experts such as Cornell's Paine on weather forecasting, Rhode Island's Jagschitz on growth regulators, Rutgers Indyk on athletic field construction and maintenance, Cornell's Smiley on diseases, Bing on weeds, Petrovic on turf management, and Tashiro on insects.

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mmm ALCA Maintenance Symposium stresses salesmenship Steve Brown, president of The Fortune Group, set the mood for ALCA's Maintenance Symposium with an upbeat presentation on effective man-agement. "Management is the skill of attaining predetermined objec-tives," Brown noted. "The only thing that matters is results." With the stage set, the approximately 150 landscape contractors heard presenta-tions on marketing potential, budgeting and forecasting, selling and equipment costing.

The marketing potential seminar was run by Ken and Tóm Oyler, Oyler Brothers Co., Orlando, FL, and Ray Gustin, Gustin Gardens, Gaithersburg, MD. They discussed marketing techniques that have been successful in their businesses. Richard Reasoner, Dendron, Novato, CA, presented the seminar on how to forecast sales and budget accordingly. Phil Christian, division manager, ChemLawn Corp., conducted the equipment costing presentation. Christian provided the audience with various equations to ascertain their own equipment profitability.

Irv Dickson's (ChemLawn) seminar on "Successful Selling Methods" picked up where Brown left off. Dickson stressed that "the difference be-tween success and failure in sales is having the right attitude." Dr. Robert Miller, vice president of group support services, ChemLawn, was the featured speaker at the luncheon. Miller, also a member of the National Coalition For A Reasonable 2,4-D Policy, spoke on the effects of chemic-als in our world.

In other ALCA news, the association released its program for its 1982 Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held in Palm Springs, CA, January 25-29. The theme is "Winning in the 1980's" and Ed Foreman and Earlene Vining will kick off the meeting with presentations on "Successful Living" and "The Art of Successful Selling." Other noted speakers will be Jerry Lankenau, "How to Get the Government Off Your Back and On Your Side;" McNeil Stokes, "Contract Negotiating;" and David Bowen, "Cash Flow Management."

There will be an expanded trade exhibit and the 12th annual presenta-tion of the Environmental Improvement Awards. A full program for the interior landscape industry is also planned.

SC Turf and Equipment Show draws over 6,800 The Southern California Turf and Landscape Equipment Show held at the Orange County Fairgrounds, Costa Mesa, CA, was attended by more than 6,800 industry personnel and students. The show is the largest in the west and features more than 150 commercial exhibits and educational displays by seven community colleges and universities.

Fullerton College, Fullerton; Cal Poly University, Pomona; and Cuyammacco College, San Diego; placed first, second and third, respec-tively, as the three schools best training future leaders for the turfgrass in-dustry. Several of the exhibits attracted quite a bit of attention from the attendees. B. Hayman Co., Sante Fe Springs, featured an antique power mower which still runs. Environmental Care's (Santa Ana) display featured an early model Ford pick-up truck. The hot air balloon advertis-ing International Seed Co.'s Derby perennial ryegrass was one of the favorite attractions.

Additionally, the Southern California Turfgrass Council set plans for its 1982 Turf and Landscape Institute to be held in Anaheim, May 4-5. Seminars are planned for landscape, golf, water and energy, pest man-agement and personnel management.

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Specialty topics included drought and water management, ground water contamination, insecticide-related bird kill, small computers, and preventative pest management. Representatives from regional organizations chaired the sessions such as Frank Claps of the New York Turf and Landscape Associ-ation, Robert Miller of the Central New York Golf Course Superintendents As-sociation, Gregory Davis of the Western New York Golf Course Superintend-ents Association, Robert Alonzi of the Metropolitan Golf Course Superin-tendents Association, and james Car-nevale of the Nassau-Suffolk Land-scape Gardeners Association. James Wyllie, vice president of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America and probable 1982 president of GCSAA, spoke on new construc-tion.

Richard McGovern, president of McGovern Sod Farms, was chairman of the conference and ironed out last minute problems with the Hilton which failed to get an occupancy permit in time for the show. Jerry Strein of Greenview Nursery, South Hemp-stead, took over the NYSTA presidency from Thomas Strain of Vestal Hills Country Club, Elmira. Bruce Shank, of

Weeds Trees 8r Turf magazine, was elected to a three-year term on the board and appointed chairman of the long range planning committee.

The Empire State Plaza provided an attractive and efficient location for a trade show. The 1982 will return to Albany and the conference hotel will be the nearby Hilton, which received its occupancy permit on the final day of the NYSTA show.

TURFGRASS

Youngner honored at West Coast show Dr. Victor Youngner was named "Man of the Year" at the Southern California

Turf and Equipment Exposition, Costa Mesa, CA.

Youngner, professor of plant science at the University of California, River-side, is an internationally recognized turfgrass breeder, educator, and turf-grass scientist. Youngner is credited with developing the smog resistant hy-

brid bermudagrass cultivar, Santa Ana. He is currently developing and evalu-ating several improved zoysiagrass cultivars which show potential for be-ing both energy and water efficient.

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EPA Officials on the Hot Seat On two successive days in October, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee grilled the EPA administrator, Anne M. Gorsuch and her nominee for Assistant Administrator for Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Dr. John A. Todhunter. Mrs. Gorsuch was questioned severely about her plans for the future of EPA because the onboard EPA bureaucracy estimates that by the end of fiscal year 1983, there will be less than half of the 1981 employment level (around 10,000). She was also grilled about the Administration's plan for rewriting the Clean Air Act, failure to do anything about Superfund, and the low morale in EPA.

On the next day at Dr. Todhunter 's nomination hearings, the Committee, with help from environmental organizations, unloaded on him. They were critical of health risk decisions made during his consul-tant status with EPA since they differed widely from previous agency policy. Of note were the decisions on formaldehyde and the controversy within EPA on the human exposure levels due to the use of ethylene dibromide (EDB) for fumigation of food crops in the Medfly quarantine areas of California. His public disclosure earlier this year about the EPA suspension of the uses of 2,4,5-T and silvex on insufficient evidence also came under fire. However, he was easily approved by the Committee and the full Senate.

More Pesticides for the Nursery Industry A concerted effort by the American Association of Nurserymen, the Na-tional Forest Products Association and the Society of American Florists has given the nursery industry quicker access to new and effective pesticides. The cost of acquiring registration data has been so great that a manufacturer often did not register low volume uses until years after a chemical was registered for a major agricultural crop.

The three organizations made their problem known at the 1981 Con-gressional Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) oversight hearings. They requested the insertion of a new definition in FIFRA that would make "applying a pesticide, registered for use on a food crop, to any non-food or non-feed nursery crop against any target pest specified on the labeling, unless such use is specifically prohibited on the labeling" not inconsistent with its labeling. In subsequent meet-ings with the House Agricultural Committee staff and EPA, a method was found to resolve the nurserymen's problem without making a change in the Act. Under existing statutory authorities, EPA proposed that the following uses are not inconsistent with labeling: (1) a pesticide regis-tered for use on a specific ornamental plant can be used on all ornamen-tal plants; (2) a pesticide registered for use in greenhouses can be used on all non-food plants grown in greenhouses; and (3) general or unclassified use pesticides registered for use on food crops may be used on non-food or non-feed nursery sites. In all three all label directions, precautions, and restrictions must be followed.

This new policy would make about 85% of the registered pesticides available to the nurserymen.

New Soil and Water Conservation Ethic The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ready to embark on a new soil and water conservation program. The programs that evolved during the last 45 years assumed that farmers, ranchers and other resource users were motivated to practice sound conservation methods for financial reasons. Today, other factors in agriculture play a significant part and the USDA has decided to shift away from random 'first-come, first served' style of practice selection to one of priority designations worked out with state and county organizations. In order, these priorities are: (1) reduce soil erosion, (2) reduce flood damage in small, upstream waterways, (3) con-serve water and enhance water quality, (4) improve fish and wildlife habitat and (5) increase the use of organic waste.

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GOLF

Musser tournament raises over $2000 Over $2000 was raised for turf research through the Musser International Turfgrass Foundation at the Eighth An-nual Oregon Musser Tournament.

Winner of the 18 hole tournament was a Salem team of Ray Anderson, Bob Renaud, Bill Burgher and Ed Radigan who won tickets for a free flight over Mt. St. Helens. Tualatin Country Club donated free green fees and the Tee-2-Green Corp. sponsored the evening banquet.

With 64 players entered this year, two women joined the fray for the first time.

Prusa takes on GCSAA training job The new education director of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America represents both the old and the new for superintendents.

Having grown up on Aquamarine Golf Club in Avon Lake. OH, where his father is superintendent, he was ex-posed to the methods of the 50's and 60's. Unlike others growing up in this rather rebellious time, he was capti-vated by his father's occupation.

After a tour in the Navy, he pursued a horticulture degree from Orange Coast Community College in Costa Mesa, CA., and California State Polytechnic Institute in Pomona. GCSAA recog-nized Prusa as a student at Cal Poly with a scholarship. He was Kent Kurtz's technician for turf research. He graduated with honors in 1975 with a degree in turf management and orna-mental horticulture.

After serving as superintendent at China Lake Golf Course in California, he moved to Pasatiempo, a course de-signed in 1927 by Allistair MacKenzie, often called the father of golf course ar-chitecture. MacKenzie also designed Cypress Point Golf Course in Monte-rey, CA, and Augusta National in At-lanta, GA, with Bobby Jones. Prusa took the job as superintendent at the beginning of the severe drought. He had to justify skyrocketing irrigation water bills and at the same time help the members adjust to course changes caused by water reduction. His di-lemma was reported at the GCSAA Convention in St. Louis in 1979.

Prusa has always expressed an inter-est in the club management aspects of golf and now holds the title of Superin-tendent of Buildings and Grounds and acting General Manager of Pasa-

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tiempo. He has always applied com-puter and audio/visual technology to his golf course work. The Club Manag-er's Association recognized his pro-gressive spirit and awarded a scholar-ship to Prusa to study for an MBA de-gree at the University of Santa Clara.

Jim Prusa Prusa has always been active in

group and community projects as presi-dent of the Cal Poly Horticultural Alumni Association, member of the

California Farm Bureau and the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce, as well as the Golf Course Superintendents Asso-ciations of Northern and Southern California. He has been a member of the GCSAA Education Committee and served as secretary of the Southern California Turfgrass Council.

Kurtz describes Prusa as progressive, creative, confident, poised, articulate, and not afraid to rock the boat. "He has been very active in review of the pest control industry standards in Cali-fornia and outspoken on misuses of pesticides. He fought for the continued use of 2,4-D in Santa Cruz County and won.

"Jim recently built a tee on top of his maintenance building," Kurtz said, "so the building was hidden from the club-house and the tee position more challenging."

Jim's brother John is a turf manage-ment graduate from Ohio State Univer-sity and is the New York area manager of Lawnmark Associates, a lawn care company. His wife, Karen is working on her CPA. Jim gives an annual schol-arship to women in nursery manage-ment at Cal Poly in memory of his first wife, Patricia, who died following a hiking accident.

To summarize, Jim knows the old ways and the new ways, the Midwest and the West ways, and strongly be-lieves that the superintendent should build on his base of expertise into com-puters, design updating, and even some club management. It may have been many of his ideas that helped GCSAA realize that its educational program had to grow.

LAWN CARE Over 800 attend PLCAA convention A rousing success may be the only way to describe this year's Profes-sional Lawn Care Association of Am-erica Second Annual Convention and Trade Show.

Over 800 people took part in the show, held this year in Louisville, KY. Exhibit space at the trade show more than doubled from last year to 144 booths. With the increased manufac-turer support and the upscale conven-tion facilities (carpeting was added to the exhibit floor), the PLCAA show has proved to be one of the major events in the green industry in only its second year.

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Finally, An Aid For Teaching Turfgrass Superintendents, Contractors, Lawn Care Managers, New, On-the-Job Reference. The Turf Managers' Handbook is a compre-hensive, organized approach to turfgrass science and care. It has been designed and wri t ten by leading turf special ists f rom Purdue, Dr. Wi l l iam Daniel and Dr. Ray Freeborg, for on-the-job reference and as a text for students. The book contains 150 i l lustrat ions and 96 color photographs. Data includes 240 tables and forms. Included are speci f icat ions for rootzones, employment, calculat ions for

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Attendees w e r e treated to three days of informative seminars, work-shops and exhibits . T h e two-hour evening workshops proved to be a we l l - apprec i a ted innovation of the show. At the workshops, lawn care operators had the opportunity to fire questions at speakers who presented seminars earlier in the day. Both the seminars and workshops were very well-attended.

The show program got off on an in-spired note with the keynote address de l ivered by Ra lph Lewi s jr., v ice president-coordinator corporate com-municat ions , Gulf Oil Corp. , Pitts-burgh, PA. In a saber-rattling speech, Lewis pointed out the public's lack of knowledge of energy policy and stressed the importance of the rela-tionship of energy, politics and global events.

T h e first day s e m i n a r s centered around technical matters such as orna-mentals, toxic waste, and lawn care equ ipment . Bus ines s s e m i n a r s on o f f i ce m a n a g e m e n t , f inancia l state-ments, accounting and employee dis-charge and compensation were the topics of the second day. Updates on herbicides, pesticides, pathology and 2,4-D were also presented.

The active participation of the lawn care operators during the educational program carried over into the trade show, according to many exhibitors. A steady flow of attendee traffic was no-t iceab le dur ing all of the exhibit hours. Additionally, many attendees were not just browsers but stopped at the booths to inquire about the prod-ucts exhibited.

One of the highlights of the show w a s a presentat ion honoring Jerry Faulring (Hydro-Lawn Corp., Gaith-ersburg, MD) for his hard work and

Jerry Faulring (left) hands PLCAA reigns to Marty Erbaugh.

leadership in serving as PLCAA presi-dent for the a s soc ia t ion ' s first two years. The board of directors was also voted in, including 1982 president J. Martin Erbaugh (The L a w n m a r k Corp., Pennisula, PA).

The 1982 PLCAA Convention and Trade Show will be held in Indian-apolis, IN, November 14-16.

ARBORICULTURE Johnson named vice president at Davey Tree Edward Johnson has been named vice pres ident of f ield s e rv i ce s for the Davey T r e e Expert Co., Kent, OH. Johnson will work closely with senior vice president of field services Bert Stamp who is planning to retire this month.

In his new posit ion, Johnson will have overall corporate responsibility for personnel, safety and equipment for total company operations.

Prior to his appointment, Johnson served as operations coordinator in the tree care department. He also served as manager of Parr and Hanson, a Davey subsidiary in Hicksville, NY. He has 26 years of experience in arboriculture and is past president of the New York Arborists Association.

EQUIPMENT Cal Poly equipment program marks 3rd year California State Polytechnic Univer-sity, Pomona, CA, celebrated the third year of turfgrass equipment evaluation program.

The tur fgras s equ ipment is con-signed to the university by Clarence McMicken, president of B. Hayman Co., Santa Fe Springs, CA (a turfgrass equipment distributor). Some of the companies involved in the program in-clude Jacobsen, Smithco, National, and OMC-Cushman.

The equipment is shipped crated to the university where the students set it up. Once the equipment is assembled and checked out by the students and Dr. Kent Kurtz, several turfgrass areas are assigned for the evaluation. On-campus areas are agreed upon by Dr. Kurtz and Wayne Smith, supervisor of landscape services for the university. Areas of campus are also utilized such a s little l eague b a s e b a l l f i e ld s and youth soccer fields in neighboring com-

munities. This segment of the program works to the benefit of not only the stu-dents, but also the volunteer organiza-tion who need assistance with turfgrass care.

The cooperating parent manufactur-ers h a v e been p l e a s e d with the ar-rangement b e c a u s e it e x p o s e s the future tur fgras s m a n a g e r s to their equipment. Several design modifica-tions have resulted from this program since the students are critical of prob-lems that may arise from using a partic-ular piece of equipment.

TURFGRASS

NCTC members request research projects Following a survey of its membership, the Northern Ca l i forn ia T u r f g r a s s Counci l R e s e a r c h Commit tee has identified five areas in which research is desired. These areas are: a mowing height compar i son of the most fre-quently used cul t ivars of Kentucky b luegras s , perennia l ryegrass and f e s c u e s under normal institutional fertilizer and watering practices; a cost comparison of seeded versus sodded turf and the development of a cost-benefit ratio per unit area; the alleo-pathic effects of various turfgrasses such a s perennia l ryegras s and tall fescue; various aspects of turfgrass irri-gation; and the selection and/or devel-opment of a fine leaf, slow-growing, and non-nuisance Kikuyugrass.

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Lakeshore promotes Winland to product manager Joe Winland has been named product m a n a g e r for turf c h e m i c a l s at Lake-shore Equipment & Supply Co., Elyria, OH.

Prior to his promotion, Winland served as plant manager and manager of inside sales for Lakeshore. His duties inc luded formulat ing and technical support. Winland joined Lakeshore in 1976 following a career as a golf course super in tendent at Pine Hil l s Golf Course Hinckley, OH, and Saw Mill Creek Golf Course, Huron, OH, where he was involved in the construction of the course.

As product manager of turf chem-icals, Winland will continue his tech-nical support functions, but will also become involved in product develop-ment and Environmental Protection Agency registrations.

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